"Allah,Most High said:
'O My Slaves! All of you are astray except whom I guide, so ask Me for guidance and I shall guide you. All of you are poor except whom I enrich, so ask Me and I shall provide you. All of you are sinners except whom I have pardoned, so whoever among you knows that I am the One able to forgive, and seeks My forgiveness, I shall forgive him, without concern for Me (and it will not affect Me). If the first of you and the last of you, the living among you and the dead among you, the fresh among you and the dry among you were to gather together to help the heart with the most Taqwa among My slaves, that would not add a mosquito's wing to My sovereignty. If the first of you and the last of you, the living among you and the dead among you, the fresh among you and the dry among you were to gather together to help the worst heart of My slaves, that would not diminish a mosquito's wing to My sovereignty. I shall forgive him, without concern for Me (and it will not affect Me). If the first of you and the last of you, the living among you and the dead among you, the fresh among you and the dry among you were to gather together upon one plateau, and each person among them were to ask for his utmost desire, and I were to give each what he asked for, that would not diminish from My sovereignty, except as if one of you were to pass by an ocean and dip a needle into it and then remove it. That is because I am the Most Liberal without need, the Most Generous, doing as I will. I give by My speech and I punish by My speech, whenever I will something I only say: "Be" and it shall be.'" Another chain reports a similar narration.
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Book 37, Hadith 81
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr from
Amra bint Abd ar-Rahman that A'isha, umm al-muminin informed her that
the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was
with her and she heard the voice of a man asking permission to enter
the room of Hafsa. A'isha said that she had said, "Messenger of Allah!
There is a man asking permission to enter your house!" The Messenger
of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "I think it
is so-and-so" (referring to a paternal uncle of Hafsa by suckling).
A'isha said, "Messenger of Allah! If so-and-so were alive (referring
to her paternal uncle by suckling) could he enter where I am?" The
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said,
"Yes. Suckling makes haram as birth makes haram."
Muwatta Malik Book 30, Hadith 1
Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafic from Abdullah ibn Umar
that a man cursed his wife in the time of the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, and disowned her child. The
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, separated
them and gave the child to the woman.
Malik said, "Allah the
Blessed, the Exalted, said, 'The testimony of men who accuse their
wives but do not have any witnesses except themselves is to testify by
Allah four times that he is being truthful, and a fifth time, that the
curse of Allah will be upon him, if he should be a liar. She will
avoid punishment if she testifies by Allah four times that he is a
liar, and a fifth time, that the wrath of Allah shall be upon her, if
he should be telling the truth. ' "(Sura 24 ayat 6).
Malik
said, "The sunna with us is that those who curse each other are never
to be remarried. If the man calls himself a liar, (i.e. takes back his
accusation), he is flogged with the hadd-punishment, and the child is
given to him, and his wife can never return to him. There is no doubt
or dispute about this sunna among us. "
Malik said, "If a man
separates from his wife by an irrevocable divorce by which he cannot
return to her, and then he denies the paternity of the child she is
carrying, whilst she claims that he is the father, and it is possible
by the timing, that he be so, he must curse her, and the child is not
recognised as his."
Malik said, "That is what is done among
us, and it is what I have heard from the people of knowledge."
Malik said that a man who accused his wife after he had divorced
her trebly while she was pregnant, and he had at first accepted being
the father but then claimed that he had seen her committing adultery
before he separated from her, was flogged with the hadd-punishment,
and did not curse her.
If he denied the paternity of her
child after he had divorced her trebly, and he had not previously
accepted it, then he cursed her.
Malik said, "This is what I
have heard."
Malik said, "The slave is in the same position
as the free man as regards making accusations and invoking mutual
curses (lian). He acts in the lian as the free man acts although there
is no hadd applied for slandering a female-slave."
Malik
said, "The muslim slave-girl and the christian and jewish free woman
also do lian when a free muslim marries one of them and has
intercourse with her. That is because Allah - may He be blessed and
Exalted, said in His Book, 'As for those who accuse their wives,' and
they are their wives. This is what is done among us.
Malik
said that a man who did the lian with his wife, and then stopped and
called himself a liar after one or two oaths and he had not cursed
himself in the fifth one, had to be flogged with the hadd-punishment,
but they did not have to be separated.
Malik said that if a
man divorced his wife and then after three months the woman said, "I
am pregnant," and he denied paternity, then he had to do lian.
Malik said that the husband of a female slave who pronounced the
lian on her and then bought her, was not to have intercourse with her,
even if he owned her. The sunna which had been handed down about a
couple who mutually cursed each other in the lian was that they were
never to return to each other.
Malik said that when a man
pronounced the lian against his wife before he had consummated the
marriage, she only had half of the bride price.
Muwatta Malik Book 29, Hadith 39